Concerts

The Gaslight Tinkers

Global dance party with music quintet

PUTNEY - Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present a dance party with roots and world music quintet The Gaslight Tinkers at Next Stage on Friday, January 24, at 7:30 pm. Blending African, Caribbean, funk, reggae, and Latin grooves with traditional fiddle music, the quintet creates the genre-...

Brandee Younger

Jazz performance with a modern twist

BRATTLEBORO - Grammy-nominated jazz harpist Brandee Younger is to perform at the Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) on Saturday, January 18, at 7:30 pm.
A unique pioneer in jazz, Younger is redefining the harp’s role in modern music, blending jazz, classical, and hip-hop influences. She is known...

Live music schedule

TOWNSHEND - The following is the schedule for live music at the West Townshend Country Store in January:
• Friday, January 10: Bard Owl
• Tuesday, January 14: Jill Newton and Sally Newton
• Friday, January 17: Bob Ray and Friends
• Tuesday, January 21: Analog Boy...

Left, cellist Mike Block and right, kora player Yacouba Sissoko

Left, cellist Mike Block and right, kora player Yacouba Sissoko

Collaboration between cellist and kora player

PUTNEY - Next Stage Arts presents a special duo collaboration between cellist Mike Block and master kora player Yacouba Sissoko on Saturday, January 18, at 7:30 pm at Next Stage.
Block is a Grammy-winning multi-style cello player, composer, singer, and educator with a passion for cross-...

The Smack Dabs

A night of swing blues and Gypsy jazz

PUTNEY - Next Stage Arts presents a double bill of good-time swing blues music from the 1930s from The Smack Dabs, and Gypsy jazz from Rhythm Future Quartet, on Saturday, January 11, at 7:30 pm at Next Stage.
The Smack Dabs specialize in good-time swing blues music from the 1930s,...

The Sarasa Ensemble

Ensemble welcomes new year with colorful tunes

BRATTLEBORO - Sarasa Ensemble welcomes the new year with “Color Burst,” set for Friday, January 10, at 7 pm at the Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way.
Warmth, beauty, humor, and pathos from Haydn and Boccherini, including rarely-heard music by 18th-century Moravian composer...

Broadcast production of Mozart opera

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA—The Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast production of “The Magic Flute” airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, December 28, at 1 pm in the latest installment of the 2024–25 season of The Met: Live in HD. The award-winning series of high-definition cinema simulcasts features the...

Reed Foehl

Songwriter and band perform folk music

BENNINGTON - The Reed Foehl Band featuring Jefferson Hamer, Jeff Berlin, and Putnam Murdock will perform at Bennington Theater, Friday, December 27, at 7 pm.
Born in a small country town in New England and into a musical family, Grammy-nominated songwriter Foehl writes stories of the human...

A past concert at the Brattleboro Music Center

A past concert at the Brattleboro Music Center

Concert exploring percussion-centric works

BRATTLEBORO - The EOS Project opens the new year on Sunday, January 5, with “Many Hands,” a concert exploring percussion-centric works.
The 3 pm concert at the Brattleboro Music Center, at 72 Blanche Moyse Way, will include percussion ensemble works, a marimba solo, a Brazilian choro, and...

Vermont-based band Jatoba

Bluegrass trio and roots string band perform

BRATTLEBORO - On Saturday, December 21, Vermont-based Jatoba and Massachusetts-based Hot Day at the Zoo (HDATZ), will make their reappearance at The Stone Church, 210 Main Street. Doors are at 7 pm, and the show starts at 8 pm. The show is for all ages. Jatoba is a high-energy bluegrass trio...